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- New York Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday compared the coronavirus pandemic to the Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the 1918 flu, and said the city's response to it should resemble President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
- "The Great Depression and the New Deal are very instructive here," the mayor told MSNBC on Monday morning. "If you want to know what this whole thing is going to play out as, one part the Great Recession we went through a few years ago, one part the Great Depression, one part the 1918 flu epidemic."
- New York's state and city government's have taken drastic action, including closing the public schools requiring restaurants to move to delivery or take-out service only.
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In an interview on MSNBC Monday morning, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio compared the coronavirus pandemic to the Great Depression and said the city's response to it should resemble President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.
New York's state and city governments have taken drastic action in recent days to protect residents from the rapidly spreading virus. These have included shutting down the city's public schools, which serve 1.1 million students, forcing bars to offer only take-out and delivery food, and closing all movie theaters, nightclubs, and concert venues. See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: A law professor weighs in on how Trump could beat impeachment See Also: SEE ALSO: A healthcare executive turned down Trump's handshake and offered him an elbow bump instead during a live press conference |